Photographic-printing frame.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR R. SELDEN, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO FRANCIS S. MACOMBER, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

PHOTOGRAPHIC-PRINTING FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 719,264, dated January 27, 1903.

Application filed April 26, 1902. Serial No. 104,896. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: the frame piece. A push button 1) passes Be it known that I, ARTHUR R. SELDEN, a through the frame-piece and into the section citizen of the United States, and a resident of B, so the latter may be moved against the Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State force of the spring in order to release the 55 5 of New York, have invented certain new and plate X from the clamping pressure. Pins 0. -useful Improvements in Photographic-Print pass through the upper and lower flanges of ing Frames, of which the following is a specithe frame-piece A and through the section B fication. in order to guide said section and to connect This invention relates to photographicit permanently with the frame-piece A. Said 6o 10 printing frames; and it consists in the mechpins also act as guides or stops for determining anism herein set forth and claimed. the position of the adjacent end of the glass The object of this invention is to provide a plate X, as shown in Fig. 3. The back board printing-frame having means for maintain- B is pivotally connected to the frame-piece ing a permanent relation between the nega- A by hinges, such as I), attached to the clamp- :5 tive and the printing-paper and to provide ing-section B.

means of easy access to the latter Without The frame-piece A is pivoted at d to the disturbing said relation and also to provide frame D,which has an inwardly-turned flange means for easy and accurate adjustment of d, adapted to extend over the edge of the glass the paper and the negative, whether of glass plate X, and to the back board B is attached 7o 20 or film, in the frame. a spring-catch E, that is adapted to engage a In the drawings, Figure 1 is afront view of projection or pin (1 on the frame D. The a device embodying this invention. Fig. 2 is frame D can be moved away from the glass a back View of the same. Fig. 3 is a longiplate without affecting the clamping mechtudinal section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1 and anism. 25 shows in dotted lines positions which certain On disengaging the catch E from the proof the parts of the frame may take, and Figs. jection 61 the back board B may be swung on 4: and 5 are cross-sections of the respective its hinges b to take the dotted-line position lines 4 4 and 5 5 of Fig. 1. shown in Fig. 3, and the frame D may turn Spring clamping mechanism is provided for on its pivots (1 into the dotted-line position 30 one edge of the negative and paper, which shown in the same figure. Hence the mechmay be operated by one hand,while the printanism for pressing the printing-paper against ing-paper and the negative (with a transparthe negative can be swung away from both cut glass plate when a film is used) may be negative and printing-paper. This moves inhandled and adjusted by the other hand, so terfering parts out of the way, so that the neg- 35 that after the desired adjustment is obtained ative, with its piece of printing-paper, may be the spring clamping device holds the negative held in one hand, and on pressing the button I) and the printing-paper, and thereafter indethe clamping-sectionBis moved awayfrom the pendent mechanism for pressing the printingflange a, and the negative and printing-papaper against the negative is brought into opper being set against the pins or stops a may 4o eration. All the elements of the mechanism be suitably adjusted, whereupon on releasing are connected, so that there are no loose parts the pressure on the button 12 the spring 0 that can be laid aside or lost. This clampcauses the clamping-section B to clamp the ing device consists of a frame-piece A, having negative and printing-paper between it and a flange a and a spring-support a", which the flange a, and then the frame D is swung 5 5 may, as shown, be of metal and may be a boxback into the full-line position shown in Fig. like structure open on one side, in which a 3 and the backboard B is moved back to press clamping-section B may move under the acthe paper against the negative X and the tion of a spring 0, so that the spring, reacting catch E engages the projection 01, thus lockagainst the supporting-flange a", presses the ing the parts together. The spring-catch E 50 clamping-section B against the glass plate X is so adjusted that it maintains a constant and presses said plate against the flange a of pressure upon the back board B when it is engaged with the projection d. If now it is desired to examine the print, the catch E is disengaged fromits projectiomthe back board B is swung open, and then the printing-paper :0, Fig. 3, may be lifted from the negative X and may be examined; but inasmuch as the ends of the print and of the negative are still held by the clamping mechanismthe paper may be returned exactly to its former po- IO sition, when the printing frame is closed again.

Of course various forms of spring-catch E may be employed and various forms of clamping device for the negative and paper.

The fact that the clamping section B is freely movable to and from the flange 0t under the section of the spring 0 makes it possible to use plates of widely-different thicknesses, and this feature, together with the employment of the spring-catch E, produces proper engagement and pressure of the printing-paper against the negative.

In case a film negative is used, the glass plate X, of clear glass, and the film is placed next against that, and behind it, against the back-board, is the printing-paper.

This device is particularly useful in connection with film negatives, (which are apt to curl and to move from position in the use of ordinary priuting-frames,) while at the same time practically the whole of the print may be examined to determine the extent of the printing. Preferably all the parts of the device are permanently fastened together.

What I claim is 1. The combination of a clamping mechanism for holding one edge of the negative and printing-paper, and connected thereto, mechanism for pressing the printing-paper against the negative and adapted to swing away in opposite directions from both faces of the negative and printing-paper, substantially as described.

2. In a printing-frame, a frame-piece at one end having a flange and spring-pressed clamping mechanism adapted to clamp one end of a plate and a piece of printing-paper between the same, a back board hinged to said clamping mechanism,a frame pivoted to said framepiece, and adapted to swing away from the plate without affecting the clamping mechanism, and a spring-catch for making engagement between said back board and said frame and for pressing each toward the other, substantially as described.

ARTHUR R. SELDEN.

Witnesses:

F. BISSELL, ALBERT R. PRITCHARD. 

